Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger lifted the curtain on his official portrait

The portrait, which will eventually hang on the third floor, was done by Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein, a realist who previously painted Andy Warhol and John F. Kennedy.

Former
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger lifted the curtain on his official portrait
on Monday, revealing a photograph-like giant image of the onetime
bodybuilder standing in front of the official California seal.

Schwarzenegger revealed
the portrait at a ceremony in the state Capitol in which he made a rare
appearance in Sacramento nearly four years after he left office.

The portrait, which will
eventually hang on the third floor, was done by Austrian artist
Gottfried Helnwein, a realist who previously illustrated Andy Warhol and
John F. Kennedy.

Schwarzenegger, a movie
star before he ran for governor in the chaotic recall election of 2005,
said he owes all his successes in life to California, which he called a
mythical place "where nothing is impossible." As a boy growing up in
Austria, he dreamed about the state, he said.

— The Associated Press

Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger revealing the official portrait at a ceremony in the state Capitol